Evaluation of Automatic Atlas-Based Lymph Node Segmentation for Head-and-Neck Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 959-966

  Stapleford, Liza J ^a   Lawson, Joshua D ^a,b   Perkins, Charles ^a   Edelman, Scott ^a   Davis, Lawrence ^a   McDonald, Mark W ^a,c   Waller, Anthony ^a   Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Fox, Tim ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auto segmentation; Deformable image registration; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Interobserver variability; Neck nodal volumes

Indexed keywords

AUTO SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; LYMPH NODE; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE LEVEL; PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATES; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; TIME SAVINGS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; NUMBER THEORY; RADIOTHERAPY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OBSERVER VARIATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77952585297     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.09.023     Document Type: Article

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